The 2004 World University Boxing Championships took place in Antalya, Turkey between November 22 and 29 2004. 129 boxers from 27 countries participated at the inaugural tournament. [1]
Bronze medals are awarded to both losing semi-finalists.
| 2004 World University Boxing Championship | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |
| 48 kg |  Zou Shiming |  Fazil Fayziev |  Abdülkadir Koçak |  Jury Mavritchev |
| 51 kg | Rafik Meggeramov | Kadri Kordel |  Volodymir Kladko |  Philippe Frenois |
| 54 kg | İbrahim Aydoğan | Aziz Ulugov |  Hyeondec.Cheol Park | Hicham Ziouti |
| 57 kg |  Romal Amanov | Abdugavor Umarov | Yakup Kılıç |  Henrik Kertesz |
| 60 kg | Selçuk Aydın | Farhat Acalov |  Girinaios Tsinakis | Ivan Yachmenev |
| 64 kg | Gyula Kate | Emin Maharamov |  Ali Ashgar Shah |  Annashat Shatov |
| 69 kg | Sergiy Derevyanchenko | Adem Kılıççı |  Alexandrs Sotniks | Rahip Baylarov |
| 75 kg | Ruslan Maksutor | Abbos Atoev |  Petrisor Gananau | Elnur Kadirov |
| 81 kg | İhsan Yıldırım Tarhan | Danil Sheva |  H. Amiri | Istvan Szucs |
| 91 kg | Vyacheslav Glazkov | Elchin Alizade |  Vedran Đipalo | Evgeny Romanov |
| +91 kg | Rustam Saidov | Zhang Zhilei | Andriy Rudenko | Roman Klimenko |
| 2004 World University Boxing Championship | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | |
| 1 | Turkey | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| 2 | Russia | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | |
| 3 | Ukraine | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 4 | Uzbekistan | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 5 | Azerbaijan | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | |
| 6 | China | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 7 | Hungary | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 8 | France | 2 | 2 | |||
| 9 | Croatia | 1 | 1 | |||
| Greece | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Iran | 1 | 1 | ||||
| South Korea | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Latvia | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Pakistan | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Romania | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 11 | 11 | 22 | 44 | ||
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